Letter from J. Lapierre to Schaeffer on the mission's fundingJ Lapierre

Printed: CONSULAR AGENCY OF FRANCE

Printed: AT LARNACA

Printed: ISLAND OF CYPRUS

Typed: No. 644

Typed: LARNACA 16 December 1948

Handwritten: R.A.F. top al-Bâid / A.D.F. (grand-)

Handwritten: Ex.

[typed: Mr Claude Schaeffer French Mission Beirut]

Typed: Dear Sir,

[typed: I have not yet received the acknowledgement of receipt of your letter of 19 November, to forward it to Mr P. ARMAND Consul of France at Malta and Cyprus. It is in fact the Consulate that was to transmit to me the £ 1000 remaining to be received for the 1948 campaign.

By letter of 8 December the Consul informs me that he has just released at the Barclays Bank for me to hand over, for you, the sum of £ 1000 intended to complete the credit of £ 1400 opened for the French archaeological mission for the year 1948.

The Consul adds that all the must be transmitted to him would be transmitted from this copy of you ... ]

[typed: I therefore take the liberty of asking you to kindly forward to the Barclays Bank at Famagusta (or Nicosia) (triplicate) for the total sum of £ 1400 . (£ 400 already transmitted and £ 1000 to be transmitted ). For my part, as soon as the Bank has informed me of the execution of this sum I shall instruct it to hand over to Mr Megaw £ 118.15.0 and to credit the balance to your account and to ask for the receipts that you will have sent him. In this way I shall have conformed to your instructions and to those of my superior hierarchical .]

[typed: I hope that when these transfer operations are completed everything will be ready for a successful campaign of 1949 which will give us the pleasure of seeing you on the island.]

[typed: I seize this eagerness this opportunity to offer you, as well as Mrs and Miss Schaeffer my best wishes on the occasion of the Christmas and New Year holidays. Please accept, Dear Sir, the assurance of my sentiments most devoted .]

Handwritten: Lapierre, consul-agent (?)

[hw: I the undersigned confirm having received from Mr the Consul of France at Dalhi Cyprus through the intermediary of Mr Lapierre, consular agent at Larnaca the sum of £ 400 (four hundred pounds) credit opened by the Directorate of Cultural Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the French Research Mission in Cyprus Fr. Schaeffer Director of the French Excavation Mission Director at the National Centre for Scientific Research]

Handwritten: signature